I took my Alexandra unit to a electronic laboratory appertaining to a friend which is one of the best guys in the trade here in Chile. I asked him to take a look at the internal structure of Alex code. To dissemble it.
After some days of extra work dedication -such is friendship- he told me that he discovered a very weird thing about this code. It was clearly made, he told me, as a bunch of interrelated but originally different algorithms. It was NOT a unitary, coherent logical structure. It was like a mix of things operating in "cascade". As much the ideas embedded in the code lines were different in many cases, they could not operate together, but only as a succession of subroutines. Say that part A takes a decision and then this is taken by part B and so on and at last a final subroutine choose the final move. Looks like two or more programs or just pieces of programs constituting an scalar progression, so he said to me.
He added that though he is not an expert in chess programming, he considered the job slovenly and shallowly made, with loops and internal contradictions that produces certainly weird results. .
I hope some experts here can give to us a more full explanation of this.
Fern
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given your description of the code i can say with 95% certainty that this code was written by a team of programmers..namely
The Son of Ron Nelson
the Daughter of Kaare Danielsen
the nephew of Gyula Horvath
all under the direction of the Grandmother of David Levy
when the group worked late on certain evenings
the brother-in-law of Christian Donniger handled Pizza and beverage deliveries
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given your description of the code i can say with 95% certainty that this code was written by a team of programmers..namely
The Son of Ron Nelson
the Daughter of Kaare Danielsen
the nephew of Gyula Horvath
all under the direction of the Grandmother of David Levy
when the group worked late on certain evenings
the brother-in-law of Christian Donniger handled Pizza and beverage deliveries
Collaborating Regards
Steve
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